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Bill Moyers in Conversation

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe

Bill Moyers in Conversation

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4.8599 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Moorers & Company, astrophysicist

0:07.0

Neil de Grasse Tyson on science, God, and the universe.

0:11.0

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries, one by one.

0:18.0

If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to be more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

0:26.3

Welcome to the next part of my conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson. He's the director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York's American Museum of Natural History.

0:36.8

He's also the narrator of a mesmerizing new show at the planetarium called Dark Universe,

0:42.3

and this spring he'll appear as the host of a remake of the classic PBS series Cosmos.

0:48.3

You can see it on the National Geographic Channel and Fox TV.

0:52.3

In our first episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson talked about the phenomenon of dark energy,

0:58.6

the accelerating expansion of our universe.

1:02.1

We expected gravity to be slowing down the expanding universe.

1:04.8

The opposite is happening.

1:06.8

We don't know what's causing.

1:08.5

Nor do Tyson and his colleagues yet fully comprehend another cosmic enigma known as dark matter.

1:14.6

There is no known objects accounting for most of the effect of gravity in the universe.

1:21.6

Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

1:28.3

On that mysterious note, we begin the next part of my talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

1:34.3

Welcome.

1:35.3

Thank you.

1:36.3

There were two strange sequences in your planetarium show, and I managed to go online and look at...

1:42.3

You become a dark matter junkie here. I didn't know.

1:44.8

You're going on...

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